Shadow Play

Ms AKira and Bujang beginning the Wayang Kulit...

Ms Akira watching intently, to see what Bujang was up to...


Bujang just realising that all is not on the up and up..who is that shadow on the wall?

Ms Akira watching herself on the wall and Bujang watching her watching herself...this is worthy of some psycho drama...

Ms Akira finally deciding that there were more interesting pursuits than watching her own shadow. Bujang totally agreed with her and went back to grooming :)

The Da Bird Championship - Ms Akira Vs The Boys

I gots it!...

I gots it AGAIN!

FOUL? What you mean?

The Wait and Pounce Technique

The Champion for this is MEGAT. The worse at it is TOTORO.

Megat gearing up for the pounce! He always gets his prey!

Ms Akira favours the Lie-in-wait Technique. She sometimes gets her prey :)

Toro however, has to practise his if I-wait-it-will-come technique.

Its just lying there. What do I do with it?

Oh dear..Too late!

Ok. I will try the pounce tecnique...

Ms Akira 1; Toro 0

The champion gets to sit on the prize :)

Ms Akira was uncharacteristically active when we had the game this morning. She would usually just hang out and prefers to tackle the lure in short bursts. However, this morning she decided that she would run and jump and get the lure no matter what. Megat likes this game as he likes tumbling after it and would wait in anticipation to pounce. His every fibre of cat-being would tremble in anticipation. Bujang would wait and pounce but he prefers flying after it against the wall. He likes to give flying kicks against the wall while trying to catch the lure. He would get it 100% of the time. But then he would then chew the lure to bits so I have to get it away from him after giving him time to give the lure a chew or two. Toro loves turning cartwheels but this morning, he didn't get much chance as all the kitties were out for blood. It was the Championship after all :)

Everything is right with my world...

Everything is right ..I am no more in the puter....

I am on top of it... zzzz

Toro came to visit me in the computer room after he was told by grandma that he was a spoil sport. Grandma had called him to sit with her but he refused, having better things to do like circling the house. So grandma called Bujang, who came quite obediently to sit with her. Bujang has never done this when I asked him to. 'Tough' he seems to say to me all the time. :) It was only then that Toro decided that he wanted to sit with grandma! Grandma said 'Huh, just now I call you, you don't want to come. Don't disturb Bujang." Of course by this time, Bujang had stood up and left grandma since he is a nice kitty and does not like confrontations unless necesary -for food of course. Grandma told Toro he was a spoil sport. After Bujang got down, Toro showed no eagerness to sit with grandma at all..hahaha.

The incident of the boys in the night time

Why is Toro in the puter?

Toro, you are in 2 places!!

Huh? I am here..here..in bed...



Its too much fur me...tomorrow will be better...

Toro likes his bed time. He would only get up when he has to go do the necessary, to drink, to harass Megat who is in the 'house' or to investigate shadows. Other than that, he prefers to get some shut eye. Bujang on the other hand will investigate everything to his satisfaction :)

Relaxing Saturday

Ms AKira prefers looking at the world from inside...

The boys think outside should be there- outside!

Watch Cat

Bujang asking if we needed any help...if not...

He has work to do - to guard the house!

Red Tunnel Vision

Toro relaxing at the end of his red tunnel...

What's that moving...hmmm...hmm...

Where is it..where~~~~~

Home Fires...

Some cats groom themselves...

and that's the way they like it...

Other cats ask to be groomed...

and show a great deal of appreciation for the favour...

Time to take a snooze...ok one more pic just for you...

Zzzzz....

Still others have to be chased to be groomed although once done...

They look truly beautiful...

Minah in Vogue

Isn't she madonna-esque?

Cat Wrangling Friday

Agent 007 - the one that got away...

V came today to help me catch the school cats to be sent for sterilisation. I wondered how the whole operation would look like for the whole of this morning and spent quite a lot of time looking out for the 5 cats. I told the cleaners not to feed them and warned the P and the AM about the whole operation. V said it would be the best thing as he did not want to get held up by red tape instead of spending the time catching the cats. The whole operation took quite a short time, about 1 hour but the wait for Agent 007 took all of 2 hours! She disappeared after her two sisters were caught in the cat trap and never came back although V said, she would be back a little later.

We waited and I called and searched to no avail. V even looked up at the trees just in case she had climbed up one without us seeing her. Finally we had to call it a day as it was starting to rain. When my P got to know that we had not managed to catch the little kitty, her first words were, "But wouldn't the cat be lonely without the others?" I had also felt that but I thought she would know her way around the compound as this is the only home she knows and she would be quite safe. I left her some food where I know she would go and I hope she would not feel too lonely during the weekend. I think Cik Mina has taught her well and she is an A+ student.

Cik Mat waiting at the gazebo with me...

Cik Mat saw me and started to follow me about. He is the most friendly of all the cats and is not afraid of me. He would follow me when I call him and we had had established this routine and trust for about 3 weeks. He was kind of suspicious when he saw V but V said I should act nonchalant. Once he relaxed, V came with the cat trap and in no time at all, Cik Mat walked right into it. :)

Cik Mat snarling at the sight of me as though saying that THIS would be the last time he trusts a two-legged-no-good-creature!

I tried to tell Cik Mat that once he is neutered, we would release him back into the compound but he was in no mood to listen. I can understand his distress but he is the only male among 4 females and so his fate is sealed already.

Cik Mina and 3rd daughter knew that something was up...


Cik Mina looking over her shoulders, wary of the scent of danger...

Cik Mina in a carrier and on her way for spaying...

Cik Mina is truly a warrior Queen. She defended her territory and her kittens with an iron claw and tried to fight with V. She snarled at him and even once, she jumped up, her tail upright and her whole body hissed her dislike and warning. V very calmly netted her. She did not go anywhere near the cat traps but she defended her 2 kittens that were in the traps already. She is truly an amazing mother!

The 2 sisters who were too curious for their own good! The one on the right is the more timid one and therefore much smaller than the rest.

The tabby ...

The calico...

V told me that he would send the cats for sterilisation tomorrow as it was not a good idea to wait too long. The cats may not be able to cope with their homecoming if they are away too long from the compound. I must say he made very good sense and it would mean they would be away at most a whole week before getting reunited again in their own backyard. I think Cik Mat would be back much sooner. I do not think he would forgive me so easily but I think with time and hunger he may tolerate me for a while longer.

I have to get Agent 007 to the vet before then as V said sometimes when the sterilised cats get back to their backyard, it might be difficult to trap the unneutered ones. The cat grapevine is a formidable one indeed.

Wild Bunch

Minah at dinner...

I was glad that all the wildbunch were in attendance tonight as it was still raining when I went to feed them. Minah didn's eat very much as she was distracted by a little lizard that darted past us. Fatboy ate 3/4 of his fissuecat sardines, Cal ate her fair share of fussiecat and so did Putih. But they were not all that energetic as it was cold and rather dreary.

I met the old auntie who used to feed them when I was coming back from my last stop. She was surprised that my cousin was not feeding the kitties but I told her that since I got home early, I fed them instead.

I then asked her why she was there so early. She told me she had not been working for some time!!! HUH! But she hastily said that she had been feeding the kitties everyday too and changing the water. I had seen the water for Minah since last week. I then asked her to help me feed the kitties but she said she was busy looking for work.

I thought if I do not persevere and get her to be responsible for some part of the feeding routine, she may feel that she has no more responsibility for the wildbunch. I told her that I needed her to help me feed them and asked her to feed them early during the weekends. I told her she could still find a job during the weekdays as I would continue to feed them then. She was not keen but I told her that just like her, I have a job to do and I needed some rest time. I just wanted her to take some responsibility as I suspect that she does not feel it was her duty to feed them regularly anymore. I know this as she didn't tell me she was not working anymore. The last time I saw her, she told me she was still working. AIYOH!

Finally, she agreed that she has a part to play in feeding the wildbunch. I repeated her duty days several times and told her to help keep an eye on the 2 naughty kids from the primary school who would usually not clean up the mess after they have fed Putih. I reiterated that if the TC has complaints, Putih's life would be in jeopardy. She promised that she would help.

It was a good thing that I met her tonight. Must be a gift of Ramadhan :)

Bujang and grandma

Bujang having some R & R on grandma's lap...

Oohhh..I am slipping off..HELP!

Bujang got up on grandma lap and sat with her for abit. But he was too heavy and slipped off..hahaha